The Forjero commits prove that this is incorrect (they are still busy removing Gitea branding related things from their code). It's going to take a long time until they begin to match the Gitea momentum.
I'd hope so! I am not interested in many of the features being added to Gitea (i.e. the momentum you allude to[1]). I want a light binary I can continue to self-host on a Raspberry Pi Zero that doesn't have Docker installed.
1. I feel Gitea is being positioned as a competitor to GitHub and GitLab - good for them! However, the previous iteration was close to perfect for my needs, albeit not very monetizable. I'm glad it got forked and will be side-grading to Forgejo.
The momentum stalled when the community was plagued recently by toxic behaviour of one of the members who started the fork. He had to step down from the "well-being" team[1], bullied a moderation team member into stepping down[2] and forced him to disclose information from a private chat[3].
Now he is trying to "reboot" the community to erase his previous bad behaviour [4]
Forgejo members are also unhappy about conflicts of interest of this individual [5]
The Forgejo community is stronger than this one individual, so it will succeed.
[1]: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/meta/commit/d822fc3b90f79372023...
[2]: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/meta/issues/176#issuecomment-82...
[3]: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/meta/issues/176#issuecomment-82...
[4]: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/meta/issues/187
[5]: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/meta/pulls/180#issuecomment-843...